Sam Hayes is a fintech 🏷️#entrepreneur and executive who co-founded TangoTrade, a business-to-business fintech company that offers payment assurance and trade finance to small and mid-sized businesses trading across borders. As of 2026 his public profiles list him as TangoTrade's president and as president of InsideRound Financial, which advises and invests in financial technology and marketplace companies.
Hayes has spent more than 25 years at venture-backed startups and large organizations, working in corporate development, capital formation, and marketplace roles. Before TangoTrade he was an executive vice president at 📝Assembled Brands, which provides capital and services to emerging consumer brands. Earlier he co-founded SharesPost, a marketplace for private-company stock, serving as its chief operating officer and executive vice president of its marketplace, and was a founding senior vice president at its successor, Nasdaq Private Market. He holds an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and an AB from Occidental College.